[mythtv-users] New Install package for MythTV 0.27 on Raspberry Pi 2 Jessie

[Thomas Mashos]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 10:16 AM jrh <jharbestonus at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On Mar 12, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Peter Bennett (cats22) <cats22 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 03/11/2016 05:02 PM, jrh wrote:
> >> I am having 3 problems:
> >>
> >> one of them has been mentioned in this the previous thread, that being
> I have to run it using sudo.  I think there is something related to fonts
> since I see a bunch of errors in the log before it fails and goes to the
> setup screen for mythbackend connections.
> > Please try shutdown the frontend and remove the .mythtv directory or
> > directories as follows (assuming you used pi as your user id:
> > sudo rm -rf /home/pi/.mythtv
> > sudo rm -rf /root/.mythtv
> >
> > Make sure your user has the audio and video groups. If you logon as pi
> > that should already be correct.
> >
> > Then make sure your backend is running, run startx (without sudo) to get
> > into X, then select Mythtv Frontend from the Sound and video group on
> > the menu.
> >
> > Definitely you should not run it under sudo.
> >
>
> I took the advice of Curtis( Thanks Curtis!) and nuked/paved my SD card,
> re-installed your latest .27.6 deb package and things now work well without
> sudo even including the audio problem below. I think it also took care of
> the menu problem as well.
>
> Much thanks for your effort in porting this to the Rpi!
>
> By the way, It works acceptably on the RPI 3 without using the mpg2
> license for OPENMAX when watching MPG2 content recorded OTA here in the US
> for both 1080i as well as 720p.
>
> I am amazed how well it works without the MPG2 license AND using the wifi
> connection and not the wired connection!
>
> I do have a mpg2 license inbound to see the difference between using it
> and just using the ffmpeg software codec.
>
> Again, thanks much Peter!
>
>
>
To be fair, the wireless on the RPI 3 is faster than it's ethernet and
doesn't share the USB bus like the ethernet port does.
-- 
Thomas Mashos
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